- the driest month seen in France since 1961 - destroying 14,000 hectares and forcing thousands of people to evacuate before it was contained.
"We battled all night to stop the fire from spreading, notably to defend the village of Belin-Beliet," Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Mendousse of the Gironde fire and rescue service told journalists in nearby Hostens. Acrid smoke has spread across a huge swathe of the Atlantic coast and its beaches that draw huge crowds of tourists each summer, with the regional ARS health agency"strongly" urging people to wear protective face masks.
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